Where does “persongalleri” come from?
persongalleri (Swedish) comes from Swedish Person, from Swedish per, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.
persongalleri (Swedish): dramatis personae, cast of characters set of all people appearing in a literary work
Definitions
- dramatis personae, cast of characters set of all people appearing in a literary work
Ancestry of “persongalleri”, step by step
persongalleri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish Person
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | Person | a person, in the plural, in tone people |
| 2 | Swedish | per | For each; for every |
| 3 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 4 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 5 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 6 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 7 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 8 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 9 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |
via Swedish galleri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | galleri | gallery |